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Three things happened on may 8, 1945. In the allied countries, Germany's capitulation was celebrated with great rallies and parties, as is well known. During one of these rallies in Sétif, French-Algeria, Algerian nationalists waved Algerian (rather than French) flags, protesting colonial rule, were shot at, and the ensuing violence and coubterviolence left thousands dead aftera few days, most of them Algerian, as some know. On the very same day - may 8 1945 - the British colonial authorities released their inquiry commission's report on the famine in Bengal which basically cleared the British authorities of responsibility, blaming it on Indian politicians, administrators and individuals, intentionally on that day to have little publicity - as very few know. Victory, colonial oppression, exploitation, famine and lies were closely related. - Christian Gerlach, Conditions of Violence #8mai